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Weekly Israel Advocacy Update. 7th. March 2014 – Written by Gabrielle ‘Gabsy’ Debinski. Media and Advocacy Director . This week we have to say shalom to ‘Gabsy’ as she leaves us to further her university studies and to welcome back Emil Gian from maternity leave. It has been an absolute …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. Truth be told, I had expected Prime Minister Netanyahu to focus on Iran in his AIPAC talk yesterday.  I had been planning to use his speech as a kick-off point for a discussion about Iran.  Instead, yesterday, I went in various other directions.  And …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. There are few things more insane than Arabs throwing large rocks at cars, and thereby causing lethal injury to children. But this is what I begin with today. It is a year ago that Adva Biton was driving in her car with other members …

My alma mater, San Francisco State University, has emerged as among the most violently anti-Jewish universities in the United States. Dusty, over at Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers and San Francisco State Unbecoming, alerts us to the fact that SFSU not only sponsors student organizations that call for the murder of Jews, …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. The campaign that I co-chair, Legal Grounds: The Campaign for Promoting Israel’s Rights – http://wehavelegalgrounds.org/ – is determined to change the status quo and reach the day when the government of Israel speaks for Israeli rights.  Altogether too much time has been lost already, …

  Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. Threats Don’t Scare Israelis. As a matter of fact, when we are threatened, our spines are stiffened. In this instance, I am referring to threats implied by Obama in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg for Bloomberg View.  It had made news a couple of …

San Francisco State University is funding political student organizations that call for murder. As has been well-covered in the Jewish American press, SFSU’s General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) held up signs last year at an event honoring deceased Palestinian-Arab professor, Edward Said, reading, “My heroes have always killed colonizers.”  CBS …

Written by David Singer. Jordan has become increasingly jittery after US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework agreement for peace missed meeting the second deadline for its release on 21 February – having initially been promised by the end of January. Now US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro has let …

Oxford University, which is ranked as one of the top five universities on the planet, has categorically rejected two motions supported by the BDS Movement. A motion that called upon Oxford students to boycott Israeli institutions and products was defeated, 69-10, with 15 abstentions. Another motion calling for students to …

Written and published  by Rachel Molschky of Cherson and Molschky. Israel bashers always make light of Palestinian rock throwing, calling them “just a few pebbles” or trying to justify the violence. But this rock throwing is part of the Palestinian culture, and it can be extremely dangerous. Arutz Sheva has …

Here’s another timeless post from my blog’s archives, which may interest readers.  Remembering an English MP (the subject of this contemporary caricature) who recommended rebellion against Britain to the Jews of Mandate Palestine, it first appeared on my blog here in 2010: The deteriorating situation in Palestine since the Arab …

It’s that time of year – Israeli Apartheid Week is coming to college and university campuses.  Watch this video to see who is behind the Anti-Israel propaganda – you may be surprised.  Sharing is caring. Please share this far and wide sent from the US.      

Weekly Israel Advocacy Update. Written by Gabrielle ‘Gabsy’ Debinski. Media and Advocacy Director, Zionist Federation of Australia.. It’s a showdown. Israel Apartheid Week vs IDF Diversity Week; the irony is palpable. Campuses across the US and Europe are abuzz with anti-Israel charades to mark the annual ‘Israel apartheid week.’ Colleges …

Israeli Minister Bennett to BBC Host: ‘Would You Hand Over Half of Britain to Someone Who Keeps on Killing You?’   Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett on BBC’s Hard Talk. Photo: Screenshot / BBC. Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday turned the tables in an interview on BBC’s Hard …

There is no end to the challenges we are facing here, but I believe I am seeing greater resilience on the part of Israelis – in both official and unofficial positions – with regard to dealing with them.  Let this be a trend that continues and grows. Occurrences described below …

Ari Lesser’s Powerful music video should make you ask a few questions: 1) Why is there such a strong call to Boycott Israel when the majority of countries around the world are committing verifiable atrocities that are all but ignored?” 2) What is the true purpose of Israeli Apartheid Week?” …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner. When it comes to speaking out about Israel’s legal grounds in Judea and Samaria, there is no giving up.  There is only persistence in moving ahead. As some of you are already aware, progress is being made on the Legal Grounds campaign that I …

Written By David Singer. US Secretary of State John Kerry and the US State Department continue to cling to the illusion that the Palestinian Authority still exists – despite PLO insistence that it does not following this Decree on 3 January 2013: Decree No. 1 for the year 2013 On …

There are two matters that are playing out in this part of the world right now that have captured some attention. One is the sudden emergence of the “legality” of the “settlements” as an issue for national debate. Or non-debate. Whatever. It is difficult to even appreciate how much this …

Each and every person has their own ideas about how to resolve matters in the Middle East. Each person I meet tells me with confidence that what needs to be done, or not done, is clear and obvious. And almost every day you can read some of the comments written …